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  1. presented to a god as a sign of thanks

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Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place at Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York examines 195,20193 years of votive offerings.
She suggests votive candles, bud vases with flowers, or cupcakes.
The amber votive candles flickered with their usual sexy sophistication.
Poets streamed into the club as waiters lit votive candles.
After sundown, the buildings glowed like votive candles in the dark.
A teenage girl is lighting a votive candle in a church.
Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place Through Jan. 6.
On view in this show are material offerings called votive objects, a.k.a.
Tables were strewn with books, votive candles, tubes of paint and photos.
Votive candles take up little space, and add personality to the room.
As night fell, many in the crowd lit votive candles and sang along.
They bring votive gifts to their graves, like rose water or rose petals.
In my photograph, a teenage girl is lighting a votive candle in a church.
But the experience just wouldn't be complete without the warm glow of that votive candle.
Traditional tapers are most common, but Mr. Hunter suggests trying votive or pillar candles instead.
That smoky citrus candle made its way into her bag, too, alongside a complimentary tuberose votive.
Votive candles burned on sidewalks, and Post-it notes paid tribute to the missing and the dead.
The events are a celebration of New York's rich history and will explore votive practice across cultures.
Inside them, robots whisk new Volkswagens into storage racks, an entertaining ceremony akin to a votive offering.
Sick centuries whisper into the dark ears of parks where votive candles in the memory of arc.
They threw "ex votos," or votive offerings, in wood, stone and bronze into a sacred healing pool.
Think indulgence, sacrifice, and votive offerings but also feasts, fasting, and the communal experience of shared meals.
Over one dining table was a flowering branch dripping with strings of artificial flowers and hanging votive candles.
In the long, dark dining room, they double as votive candles, lighting faces from below: dinner as séance.
They eat on china plates with metal silverware, at tables set with unlit votive candles, in the cafeteria.
Shopping Guide The quickest way to add ambience to a party is with a cluster of votive candles.
On festive winter nights, votive holders filled with flickering tea lights can add instant ambience to a room.
What, precisely, that danger consisted of, we don't know, though some votive objects are forthright in telling us.
They bought brooms from Italy, votive candles and table linens from India and Tupperware-like containers from Argentina.
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - The teddy bears belonged in a child's bedroom, the votive candles in a local church.
Some votive objects mark the memory of a past event that is later celebrated in a material form.
According to a Credence Research report from 2016, votive candles make up 22 percent of the global candle market.
We put a votive on top of one and BF sings a little "Happy Birthday" because I tell him to.
Smaller votive holders often look appealing arranged in clusters; larger ones make a statement when you use just a few.
A votive candle lit up a wall; in her post-party haze, she didn't even notice until the following morning.
A series of off site programs, the events celebrate the rich history of New York and explore votive practice across cultures.
At the Wagner Houses on Monday, a shaded area outside the entrance glowed from the light of dozens of votive candles.
Tables are shielded with glass wrapped in butcher paper and half-lit by votive candles tucked into Capiz-shell lotus blossoms.
Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place is on view at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery through January 6, 2019.
Khao Sophy, who sells votive goods at the market, said preferences among the spirits clearly mirrored the tastes of her human customers.
Called "Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place," its theme is the technology of charisma, how religious power-objects work.
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Votive objects — also called ex-votos, from the Latin word for vow — are common to every culture and have a long history.
But new air-conditioned department stores took away their customers, and the family moved on, like its neighbors, to selling votive papers.
It truly comes alive during the October fête votive — 11 days of jollification with bull-running, bull-fighting and brass band parades.
Other votive hands have been found in other parts of the Roman Empire, but are slightly larger than the artifact found at Vindolanda.
Gallery Without Walls: Ex Voto NYC is a series of off site programs designed to activate votive sites in New York's five boroughs.
This off site programing comes in conjunction with Bard Graduate Center's current exhibition titled Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place.
In March 2015, Mr. Countee invited her to a Santa Monica hotel suite, which he had decorated with rose petals and votive candles.
Among votive objects, sculptural images of body parts abound: mangled hands, wounded legs, failing eyes, aching teeth, lungs, breasts, a uterus, a scrotum.
Rows of fans coalesce into a dark mass punctuated by iPhone torch lights held up like votive candles before he even enters the stage.
Much of the discovered material consists of animal remains and funerary wares, such as storage vessels, beer jugs, and a number of votive vessels.
Today, it sits in a spotlit case at the Diocesan Museum — a silent, gleaming votive to the unending gospel of jewelry-making in Vicenza.
Votive offerings ask for something supernatural, to make a connection with a presence beyond the veil of this world, to wish for a miracle.
Outside the building's front door, the regiments of red and white votive candles grew as 10 "Happy Birthday" balloons clattered in the stiff wind.
It arrived in a clear glass with a cross on the base that was clearly designed to cradle a votive candle, perhaps in a church.
I was particularly taken with the votive chapel, a large independent structure filled with candle armatures, thousands of candles lit in homage to the Virgin.
Clues to its schizophrenic history are everywhere: ornate stained glass windows, a votive candle stand, a couple of disco balls propped up in an open safe.
Other than the rosary or the votive candle, holy water is probably the most recognizable Christian object — probably because, well, it looks like regular old water.
Outside the East Harlem apartment building where Mr. Washington lived, votive candles flickered in the breeze as people went in and out of the brick building.
At the formal commemoration on Saturday, a solemn ceremony at the Museum of the Holodomor, Ukrainian politicians lit votive candles in memory of the lives lost.
For a Christmas caroling party, for example, she created a build-your-own-peppermint-schnapps bar with votive candles, sliced oranges, candy canes and holiday cookies.
Actually, you don't, Mr. Redd said, noting that while he owns proper silver votive holders, he also likes to repurpose small cups to hold tea lights.
"Forgiven," for instance, is placed in a church suggested mostly by shadowy congregants and a votive candle stand, letting Ms. Stanley's exquisite work shine as drama.
The reality star went all out for the holiday gathering, decoring her table with ceramic pumpkins, bouquets of white roses, gold-leaf garland and votive candles.
Whether you buy one for $36 or three for $89, every alluring votive comes elegantly nestled in a matte-black gift box accented with gilded lettering.
When they arrived, she took all their bags and lined them up on a mirror, flanked with votive candles, running down the center of the dining table.
Votive Candles (Anthology Editions, 3rd floor, Z03) Based in Brooklyn, next to a record store in Greenpoint, Anthology Editions is fittingly both a book and music publisher.
The artists have restored the exhibition space back to its former Victoriana glory, by adding purple votive candles, heavy chandeliers and geometric floral wallpaper from the 1880s.
Just because it's a common option, doesn't mean your votive of choice needs to either look like a tired cop-out or blow your entire shopping budget.
Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place continues through January 6, 2019 at Bard Graduate Center Gallery (18 West 86th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan).
The votive candles at their booth promote their new book about Brooklyn band Endless Boogie's frontman, Paul Major, who they always felt was undervalued as a musical influence.
People have been baptized and married and buried in the cathedral, and I've just stood in line for a while to take a gander and light a votive.
Votive candles were arranged in the shape of an F in the lobby of his Forest Houses building, the same spot he stood to hang out with friends.
When I was there, a mother held a newborn at the entrance, waiting for its father, who appeared shortly with a fat bunch of votive candles to light.
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While attached to the popular practice of Catholicism, ex-voto paintings developed from the votive ritual, which dates back to the ancient pagan beliefs of Rome, Mesopotamia, and Egypt.
Built as much as painted, they are supplemented with marbles; dried weeds; ribbon; small stones; and scraps of wood, shingle and jewelry — all of which enhance the votive quality.
There are thematic sections, like on the process of creating wax votive objects, and a whole case of heads, suggesting a deep human history of aches and mental maladies.
On Tuesday Charlene and Albert opened the traditional Feast of Monaco at Port Hercule by ceremoniously burning the votive boat, symbolizing the arrival of Dévote on the banks of Monaco.
In the photograph, Hudson and Hawn lie in a circle of women on a chocolate-colored area rug staged with votive candles, Ikat throw pillows and two massive amethyst geodes.
Domanović's other series on view is another reinterpretation of older cultural production, recreating Greek Votive Offerings, this time for WNBA players instead of the mythical subject matter employed centuries ago.
My shrine at home has statues of the Holy Mother from around the world, pictures of my family, and votive candles with images of Freddie Mercury and Divine on them.
And one major American shrine, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, with its healing wall of names, has been a magnet for votive objects since it was built in 1982.
In the exhibition, the suspended charred mats are ringed by votive candles, which together evoke, for an informed viewer, the fires that government-backed Bengali settlers put to Pahari homes.
Nearby, "The Light of Spirit" (2016), a glowing chandelier comprised of more than 200 red electric candles that dangle above a single gravesite marker, simulates votive offerings lit for the deceased.
More than 15 artists have contributed Spice Girls-inspired art, from photographs and videos, to a mural, a set of Spice Girls votive candles, and one pair of embroidered teenage underwear.
When he proposed, Mr. Davis led Ms. Davis on an elaborate scavenger hunt that ended at the house, where Mr. Davis was standing in a heart-shaped ring of votive candles.
So a team of eight club staffers gets busy under his direction, pulling a potted plant from the terrace for one corner and setting up two dozen glowing amber votive candles.
Just outside the building were dozens of votive candles, and a few large color photographs of Mr. Pagan striking poses in stylish jeans, sneakers, ball caps and, in one, a sweater.
Just outside the building were dozens of votive candles, and a few large color photographs of Mr. Pagan striking poses in stylish jeans, sneakers, ball caps and, in one, a sweater.
The stained glass windows, endless rows of votive candles, embroidered priestly vestments, and vaulted ceilings all send a clear and reverent message to the visitor: You are now in a divine space.
The official meeting in Moscow was sparsely attended, while thousands filled Pushkinskaya Square for the unsanctioned action, standing solemnly with flowers, votive candles, and balloons, which were released into the evening sky.
One woman carried a votive lamp with the murdered journalist's picture in it and another carried a sign that read "Looks like we can't have freedom of speech but we want justice".
In Rakowitz's video, Cody, voiced by veteran and artist Gin McGill-Prather, describes the traumas of war to lifeless votive figures and tells them he can free them from their glass prisons.
Desus, or Daniel Baker, and Mero, Joel (pronounced Joe-él) Martinez, sat in the shiny leather armchairs in which they conduct the show, with votive candles bearing their likenesses standing between them.
As is shown by the painted narrative a Moche ceramic vessel and also by a pair of Inca votive figures, human sacrifice, including of children, was in some places a ritual practice.
"The act of votive giving is intimate, and its personal dedicatory sentiment is unique to its devotee," curator Ittai Weinryb, an associate professor at Bard Graduate Center, states in the accompanying catalogue.
On the more political side of things, Jesus Benavente will present "I Still Remember You Mijo (Votive Vela)," which is a response to the ongoing targeting of Latinx communities in the United States.
The most deliberate of the three, a coiled spring of a man with dark eyes and an angular face, bent over and lit a $2.50 votive candle dedicated to Our Lady of Altagracia.
Admiration turned to worship within a few years after Charlotte died, three weeks before her 39th birthday and pregnant with her first child, her votive flame fanned into a blaze by Gaskell's book.
CreditCreditEdwin J. Torres for The New York Times For years Freddy Collazo watched death pool in sidewalk cracks and on basketball courts, leaving behind votive candles and bottles of a victim's favorite cognac.
In the main dining room, lit by votive candles, a group of 15 were celebrating the birthday of YSL's studio director, while waiters in tan hide aprons circulated with wine bottles and glasses.
Along with your favourite Christmas candle scents like Cinnamon Stick and Frosty Gingerbread, this set also includes a wick trimmer, a lid to help maintain an even burn, and a votive glass candle holder.
Inside a place of worship there are often flammable tapestries lining stone walls, and plenty of polished wood interior decorative surfaces, and sometimes a ceiling coated with centuries of burning votive candle wax residue.
Renato simply painted a series of bars and blocks in red, black or white around its edges, giving it a kind of frame and turning it into a votive object of a female goddess.
In addition to the requisite sexy massage candles we keep on our nightstand, we make sure to have a votive or two that are all but tailor-made to help us chill out before bed.
We see a blank spot where the photograph was taken down from the wall, next to a Vietnamese-style altar on which another photograph of her husband, various votive offerings, and other important objects rest.
The space opens up as you enter the dining room, with chandeliers that look like concentric rings of votive candles suspended above the white tablecloths, each of which is set with a single white taper.
But tonight, it's all business, and the Blue Room has been lit with nearly a dozen votive candles, the table is set with yellow roses, and the Washington Monument is neatly framed in the South window.
One neighborhood under direct threat from the subway stations is Charoen Chai, whose narrow lanes are dominated by a quintessentially Chinese trade in votive paper effigies, which are burned on special occasions as offerings to ancestors.
The event, which took place from November 2–4, was organized in collaboration with Bard Graduate Center (BGC) to coincide with the exhibition Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place, on view through January 6.
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Sure, scrubbing half-melted wax from the bottom of a burnt-out votive may ruin your sponge, manicure, and day — but, it also allows sustainability-focused consumers the opportunity to practice what they preach (on social media).
Two months after the murder — after the late winter weather had toppled the votive candles left on Mr. Hushmand's doorstep by grieving students, and faded the roses to sepia — Celle is a tiny capsule of a conflicted Germany.
Through collaborative works, including drawings made with an undocumented immigrant and a series of "milagros," or votive, paintings created with a Mexican artisan, Mr. Maravilla maps his own harrowing journey and extends the healing he has found outward.
Carrying our stacks of court files, and insights borne of hanging out at votive candle memorials and in public housing lobbies, we stole a few precious words with a victim's mother or father: We're sorry for your loss.
Only one Big Sur votive made the final album—albeit in totally different form—but the work inspired Droste enough to accompany Taylor on a writing sojourn to Crestline, a vacation resort high in the San Bernardino Mountains.
I hope they also spend time with the even more powerful artworks in the same room: a dozen retablos, or votive paintings on metal by anonymous Mexicans, similar to hundreds of paintings Kahlo lived with in the Casa Azul.
Yet, at the same time, there is a strange comfort to this routine — the contestants' nerves, the anxious laughter, the person who's "not here to make friends," the person "with a kid at home," the votive candles, Chris Harrison's politician hands.
When Hurricane Katrina walloped New Orleans in 2005, the flood that followed pushed putrid, brackish water into the 6-foot raised basement of the National Votive Shrine of Our Lady of Prompt Succor in the city's Uptown section, Harris said.
Sharp visual details—shadows moving across the walls of a room, Sharon Stone's shoulders, the distribution of votive candles in a restaurant—give structure to essays that seek to evoke "the baggy fit of feelings before they've found their purpose."
On Día de los Muertos, the marigold-framed gravestones at the Xoxocotlán cemetery in Oaxaca City glow an amber hue, lit by hundreds of votive candles as people eat and drink into the morning around the gravestones of their ancestors.
"My friend Mustafa, whom I came to see here at Sinak, got killed by sniper fire," he said as he bent to light votive candles he had placed on the concrete around the dried blood where his friend had fallen.
Practices inside the whitewashed St. John the Baptist church include the familiar veneration of those saints with votive candles, but also the cleansing of bad vibes by moving eggs over people's bodies, and ceremonies in which the necks of live chickens are snapped.
Architecturally, we can see hints of this presence everywhere, most notably in front of or inside of most homes and businesses where spirit houses — often dotted with votive objects and incense — invite spirits and ancestors to protect, guide, and provide good luck.
They constitute an art genre of their own — an art of please-and-thank-you — and one that is the subject of a marvelous show called "Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place" at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in Manhattan.
Nina Garcia, the newly installed editor of Elle, was seated across from Mr. Kors at a long table covered in green-and-white-checkered tablecloths, Mason jars filled with red roses, and votive candles that gave the room a warm, flickering glow.
Two bouquets of flowers, five votive candles and two photos lined the bench where the Trinidad family usually sat, a memorial to a father and his four daughters who died in a car accident in Delaware on Friday while returning from a vacation in Maryland.
Religious services in Venice have also been canceled, including the celebrations in the Basilica of Saint Mary of Health, the baroque masterpiece that was built as a votive offering to mark the end of the plague that decimated the city's population in 1630-31.
AFAM complicates this choice by simultaneously running the exhibition Once Something Has Lived It Can Never Really Die in an adjacent hall, where Lockett's work is paired with votive symbols and indigenous crafts of various tribes to make the point that this work has a performative aspect.
Circling this sculpture are four pieces from Yang's Intermediates series, which reflects a similar transformation: man-made textiles such as artificial straw, plastic fruit, and plastic flowers are used to craft semi-holy structures that look like votive offerings, all playfully set on moveable caster wheels.
CreditCreditEdwin J. Torres for The New York Times After the bullet shells get counted, the blood dries and the votive candles burn out, people peer down from housing-project windows and see crime scenes gone cold: a band of yellow police tape blowing in the breeze.
At a stall on the southern fringe of one of the city's oldest markets, he browsed votive wares ranging from traditional red candles to glossy Lexus sport utility vehicles made of cardboard, finally settling on several sets of paper clothing and four neat stacks of replica $100 bills. Col.
Four massive turkeys (one for the neighbors!) marinated in Cajun spices in the oven, tasteful votive candles arranged just so on a white tablecloth, a team of friendly-faced personal chefs: As we learned through a series of Instagrams over the holiday weekend, Thanksgiving à la Oprah is the American dream.
Nevertheless, the island's appeal — not least due to its fertile soil, as evidenced in several terra-cotta votive offerings on view here — enticed many wealthy Greeks to its shores, bringing with them the traditions of fine Athenian marble sculptures and red-figure pottery associated with Greek art of the time.
Created by artist Adrián Viajero Román, the ofrenda was at Green-Wood Cemetery from November 2–4, and it was organized in collaboration with Bard Graduate Center's exhibition Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place (18 West 86th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan), which is on view through January 6.
The stud of the television dating scene is "The Bachelor" and its spinoffs, and though it is sheathed in the trappings of romance — red roses, votive candles, diamond rings — it plays most of its love-seekers as fools, assigning them job titles like "pantsapreneur" and "twin" and scoring them with dopey circus music.
His works often overgrew their intended boundaries, with first editions issued in paperback, followed a year later by a hardcover edition twice as long and crammed with additional material — and sometimes artifacts like votive candles and dried mushrooms, the fictive story lines spilling out of the page and into three-dimensional reality.
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Under the guidance of National Academician David Humphrey, the weekend's offerings will include crash course presentations and tutorials on everything from creating reliquaries and pagan votive candles (with artist Sheila Pepe), to a collaborative drawing session led by frequent collaborators Caroline Wells Chandler and Jennifer Coates, and a tarot reading class led by painter Inka Essenhigh.
Filled with the kind of things she didn't know she needed — cashmere socks, a jersey nightgown, an ember votive candle, a rose quartz geode, a journal, organic tea — it's a great solution if you're stumped to find a gift for the mom who already has everything, or the mother-in-law whose interests remain a mystery.
As news of Mr. Patouhas's death spread, his family made plans to fly in from Greece, and dozens of people flocked to his store, Astoria Liquors, to leave a bouquet or a votive candle beneath the blue and white awning, and to share memories of the ordinary — and yet, to each person, memorable — things he had done to help them.
Some highlights this Friday, April 28, include Sal Muñoz's "temple to social justice" at Auxiliary Projects, which will be filled with Mexican votive imagery; Alison Owen's installation at Greenpoint Hill, where she's accumulated scraps and found materials from her studio; and paintings by James Ulmer at Greenpoint Terminal Gallery depicting body builders and other manly men in not-so-manly ways.
In 1995, a pair of well-worn prosthetic legs were placed at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. These tributes, offerings, and material messages of thanks are brought together in Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place, an exhibition at Bard Graduate Center Gallery examining the centuries-long global tradition of using objects to connect with the divine.
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The show collapses geographic and temporal distances, uniting the World War II cartoons drawn by Tomi Ungerer as a boy in Alsace (a region contested for centuries by France and Germany) with an illustration (2011, ink on amate paper) from José Manuel Mateo and Javier Martínez Pedro's children's book Migrant, which maps a young man's journey from Mexico to the US, its style evoking comic books and 18th-century Mexican votive paintings.

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